Olympic demand for ‘unproven’ ice therapy is unsustainable, scientists say
Climate crisis is making days longer, study finds
May 2024
Humanity’s survival is still within our grasp – just. But only if we take these radical steps
David King
Reduce emissions, build resilience, repair ecosystems, remove greenhouse gases: these are the four Rs that can save us, says David King, chair of the global Climate Crisis Advisory Group
March 2024
Ice-free summers in Arctic possible within next decade, scientists say
Home of polar bears, seals and walruses could be mostly water for months as early as 2035 due to fossil fuel emissions
February 2024
Seascape: the state of our oceans
Pumped up: will a Dutch startup’s plan to restore Arctic sea-ice work?
As the Arctic warms, devastating the climate and ecosystems, an old idea used to create skating rinks could be deployed to restore melting ice caps, despite scepticism from some experts
Antarctica sea ice reaches alarming low for third year in a row
The extent of ice floating around the continent has contracted to below 2m sq km for three years in a row, indicating an ‘abrupt critical transition’
Climate experts sound alarm over thriving plant life at Greenland ice sheet
Great Lakes average ice cover drops to 6%, one of lowest levels ever recorded
Seascape: the state of our oceans
‘Spoon worms lick the seabed with a metre-long tongue’: a voyage into a vanishing Arctic world
January 2024
Twenty people rescued from ice floe in Lake Erie, says US Coast Guard
Greenland losing 30m tonnes of ice an hour, study reveals
December 2023
Red alert in Antarctica: the year rapid, dramatic change hit climate scientists like a ‘punch in the guts’
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Full Story revisited: Where did all the Antarctic sea ice go?
‘Incredibly lucky’: Antarctic scientists examine world’s largest iceberg, three times the size of NYC
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World's largest iceberg drifting away from Antarctica captured by drone vision – video
November 2023
Emmanuel Macron pledges €1bn to fund research into melting ice caps
The French president has called for action at a climate summit in Paris attended by heads of state and scientists before Cop28
October 2023
Rapid ice melt in west Antarctica now inevitable, research shows
Without the Southern Ocean we cannot survive on Earth. Our research must wait no longer
Nathan Bindoff
August 2023
Seascape: the state of our oceans
A new dawn rises in the Arctic: the Inuit plan to reclaim their sea
Seascape: the state of our oceans
The desperate race to create a protection zone around the rapidly melting Arctic
